Nairn Centre, ON
A 1,500-acre licensed explosives site and the group's detonator assembly facility. It is the base of Consbec's explosives operations.
Bulk Emulsion
Made | Delivered | Loaded
Our Own Product
We make it, move it and load it
Consbec makes its own bulk emulsion, hauls it in its own tankers and pumps it into the hole with its own trucks. One company is answerable from the batch plant to the blast, on mine sites and on construction jobs where the specification was written around hand-loaded cartridges.
Manufacturing since 2010
Capacity
The fleet behind it
- Bulk pumpers
- 25
- Highway & storage tankers
- 20
- Pumping reach
- 500ft
- Daily plant capacity
- 100,000kg
2 t – 20 t capacities, rough terrain and cold weather capable
20 t capacity, point-to-point bulk emulsion distribution
Long-distance borehole loading with minimal access construction
Dual batch plant, single shift
Manufacturing
Made in our own plants
Winnipeg, MB
Regional explosives factory site with an emulsion plant, serving Manitoba and the Prairies. The site itself is at Inwood, north of the city.
Moncton, NB
Atlantic Canada explosives factory site with an emulsion plant, plus secondary drilling parts inventory.
On site
Mobile and modular emulsion plants set up at or near the project, cutting haul distances and the number of times finished product is handled.
Construction & Sensitive Blasting
Bulk emulsion where others hand-load
Our 1,800 kg mini pumpers operate under approvals from the Explosives Regulatory Division of Natural Resources Canada. That lets us bring bulk emulsion onto highway cuts, dam spillways and jobs beside occupied structures: places where most specifications assume hand-loaded cartridge product.
A known charge in every hole
The pumper meters emulsion through calibrated flow systems, hole by hole, so the charge per delay is what the design says it is.
Fully coupled, no voids
Pumped emulsion fills the borehole. No air gaps between cartridges means less scatter in energy from hole to hole — and steadier vibration next to dams, highways and buildings.
Built for wet ground
Excellent water resistance for wet holes and variable ground, with fewer misfires and none of the packaging waste of cartridge product.
Less handling at the crest
Pumped from a secure vehicle rather than placed cartridge by cartridge — less manual handling, and less time for crews at the edge of the excavation.
In the Field
Good floor, no subdrill
Spillways at the Caribou and Heath Steele tailings dams sat on shallow rock, right beside concrete, with no subdrill allowed. A cartridge-loaded hole in those conditions tends to leave rock standing at the toe.
We loaded the production holes with bulk emulsion from the mini pumper instead. Pumped emulsion fills the hole wall to wall and puts full energy right down at the toe, so the shots pulled good floor without subdrill. Packaged product, in the same pattern and hole size, would not have, and every blast stayed well inside the vibration limit at the dam.
Tailings, dams & spillways
Caribou Mine — Tailings Dam Raise
Near Bathurst, New Brunswick
New spillways cut into rock beside a tailings dam and its concrete spillway — 30 blasts under a 25 mm/s limit at the dam, every one independently monitored, the highest reading 37% of the limit.
View project- 4.3 mm/sHighest vibration at the damActive
Tailings, dams & spillways
Heath Steele Mine — Auxiliary Spillway
Wayerton, New Brunswick
A new auxiliary spillway cut through rock near two tailings dams, held to 25 mm/s at the dam — designed from measured vibration data rather than textbook constants, and loaded with metered bulk emulsion.
View project - 130,000+ m³Rock blasted to September 2026Active
Highways
Highway 103 Twinning
Chester, Nova Scotia
Mass rock excavation for the twinning of Highway 103 at Chester — 216 blasts since September 2025, loaded with bulk emulsion, beside an open highway and under a 12.5 mm/s limit at the nearest structure.
View project
Your Project
Specified cartridges? Ask us about bulk.
Send us the specification. We’ll tell you where bulk emulsion fits, and put the design, the monitoring and the approvals behind it.